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Book fair
planned
Junior High Unit
will sponsor a student
fair from April 17-
National Library Week,
will be able to browse
■ purchase books. The book
will be open during the
aM-s of 8:40 to 3:00. Books will
<'H|n display in the Library.
Me book fair committee
all students, parents,
visitors to attend the fair.
■ fair will encourage students
■ read and build home
Maries. All profits will be
to the building fund
■ilot held man
■or police chief
,B°n Roney, an Eastern
■lines Pilot, spotted a black
■n walking near Senoia
■nday morning. He thought
■ man was the suspect
|Bmen were looking for in
with the robbery of a
store and the stabbing
woman.
■toney lives on Route 16 near
on the Griffin - Newnan
He was taking his two
to school in Senoia,
pilot went to a telephone
■ called Chief John Bearden
■ the Senoia Police Depart
■nt, telling him of the
IBpicious looking man.
■<oney didn’t want the man to
■ away so he returned to the
■ne and began to talk with
■n. Roney still had his two
■ughters with him and told
■m to lie down in the seat,
■rhe pilot had a pistol with
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■ospital Report
■The following persons have
■sen admitted to the Griffin
■alding County Hospital:
■Marvin Parker, Mrs. Ruby
■nglish, Mrs. Betty Banks,
■larlie Maner, Mrs. Imogene
■reene, Wayne Walker, Mrs.
■eva Leona Jackson, John R.
■ill, Ralph Stephens, Mrs.
■aynelle Butler, Julie Ann
■riffith, Mrs. Louise Ray, Mrs.
■aura Bridges, Mrs. Wylene
■nith, Mrs. Evelyn Irene Voss,
■osa King, Ida Mae Smith,
■hester Goen.
■ The following were
■smissed:
Mrs. Janice Pierce and baby,
■ames Davenport, Mrs. Kathy
Kitchens and baby, Mrs.
■harlene Davis and baby, Mrs.
Kula Hogan, Henry Starks,
■rs. Geneva Hires, Angelyn
Bvilliams, Denard Pippin,
■anay Clark Evans, Fred
Karentte, Mrs. Betty Lewis,
Kobby Adams, Mrs. Annie
■oster, Clarence Williams,
■irs. Julia Head, Mrs. Necia
■lemons, Mrs. Ruby King.
I Stork Club
MASTER SMITH
■ Mr. and Mrs. Leon Smith of
■toute One, Box 10, Zebulon,
■nnounce the birth of a son on
■pr. 12 at the Griffin-Spalding
■ounty Hospital.
GRIFFIN HOSPITAL
CAREASSOCIATION,INC.
"The Plan that pays more.”
Our $25.00 per day Intensive Care Plan has paid the
following claims:
One claim, maternity, 4 days in hospital ’276 50
One claim for check up & tests, 6 days ’335 05
in hospital
One claim, pneumonia, 5 days in hospital $ 913 70
One college student, accident, 9 days 440 75
in hospital
Cancer victim, 30 days in hospital ’4,451 13
This "Intensive Care Plan” only $6.10 per month for
single person; for family of two or more, $15.86 per
month.
We also offer a $15.00 plan to add to the one you have for
only $3.00 per month for one person, $4.25 for one adult and
child or children, $5.50 for man and wife and $6.50 for
family of three or more.
INVESTIGATE
Call 227-2742 or come by the office
107 N. Hili St
F.L Bartholomew, Jr., Secretary-
Griffin Hospital Care Assn.
of the new regional library.
The librarian and the
teachers of the English
Department are sponsoring this
event. The librarian is Mrs. Ann
Batchelor and the sponsoring
teachers are Miss Dorothy
Sampson, Mrs. Nell M. Wynne,
Miss Carol Griffin, Mrs. Miriam
Maiining, Mrs. Bobbye
Watkins, Mrs. Jimmie Cole, and
Mrs. Betty Goss.
The book fair display will
include attractive new books
from many publishers in all
popular price ranges.
He remained in his car while
he engaged the suspect in
conversation for -a few
moments. Then when the man
appeared to move, Roney
raised his pistol and told the
man not to move. He held the
suspect at gunpoint until the
Chief Bearden came and took
charge.
The man later was identified
as Carl Leonard, 25, who gave
police a Macon address. He said
Ik had escaped two months ago
in Macon where he was being
held as a murder suspect.
Lawmen had searched the
Fayette and Coweta areas for
the suspect following a grocery
store robbery in which a woman
was slashed.
Price probe
story said
unfounded
Charlie Thomas, a Kroger
vice president in charge of the
Atlanta Division, said today
that Kroger stores have not
been accused of any wrong
doing by Internal Revenue
Service regarding price freezes.
Mr. Thomas notified H. G.
Dial, Griffin Kroger manager,
that he had checked with IRS
about a report in the Atlanta
Constitution this morning. The
story said that Winn-Dixie and
Kroger were under investiga
tion concerning price controls.
Thomas said IRS said there
was no foundation for the story
and was attempting to find the
source.
Hospital
addition
due by ’74
Plans call for the completion
of the addition to the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital in 1974.
Carl Ridley, administrator,
said that the authority hopes
construction will be finished in
July of that year and that
patients will occupy it that
September.
Hospital Authority Chairman
Carl Richardson told of plans
for the addition to the hospital
two weeks ago in a speech to the
Kiwanis Club at which time he
said that it would be built
without expense to Spalding
taxpayers.
Titanic disaster of 1912 recalled
Editor's Note: On April 14,
1912, the most luxurious vessel
of that time, the SS Titanic,
rammed into an Iceberg in the
North Atlantic. This is an anni
versary account of the tragedy.
By BILL HILL
Copley News Service
Sixty years have passed
since the SS Titanic plunged to
the bottom of the Atlantic. With
each passing year there have
been reports of planned efforts
to refloat the sea giant to re
cover the gold bullion and trea
sure of diamonds reputed to
have been deposited in the
ship's safe by a score of sodal
ites aboard.
But nobody has come up with
the financing to float such a
project, though technology has
advanced to the point where re
covery of the ship’s remains no
longer is a question of know
how — just a question of money
and return on the investment.
Titanic was away of saying
huge many years before 1912.
The word derives from Titan,
who, according to Greek
mythology, was a race of giants
put in its place by Zeus and his
compatriots on Olympus.
But in 1912, Titanic became a
household word denoting disas
ter. That was the year the
White Star luxury Hner plowed
into an iceberg in the North At
lantic and sank with 1,517 peo
ple aboard. It was the greatest
marine disaster of all time.
As the great ship plunged to
the bottom, she took with her
one of the wealthiest men in the
world — at that time — Benja-
Angela Davis
19-second recording introduced in trial
By DONALD B. THACKREY
SAN JOSE, Calif. (UPD-
James Brown, a consultant
with the California State
Personnel Board, was inter
viewing a job applicant on the
third floor of the Marin County
Courthouse at San Rafael on
Aug. 7, 1970, when a sharp
crackling noise broke out
below.
A bullet crashed through the
window. Brown and the appli
cant fled, leaving the tape
recorder running.
When Brown returned later,
he found he had a remarkable
electronic document—a drama
tic, 19-second recording of the
Moody gun battle in which four
persons died on an exitway
near the courthouse after four
kidnapers took a judge captive
in his courtroom and tried to
Deaths -F unerals
Ray Infant
Little Pamela Louise Ray,
infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James E. Ray of Williamson,
died Tuesday night at the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
Survivors in addition to her
parents, include three brothers,
Randell Ray, Chris Ray and
Jeff Ray, all of Williamson;
grandmother, Mrs. Nancy
Eubanks of Williamson and
Mrs. W. W. Ray of Griffin.
Graveside services will be
conducted Thursday morning at
11 o’clock in the Providence
Baptist Church in Williamson.
The Rev. Claude E. Johnson
will officiate and burial will be
in the church cemetery. Mc-
Donald Chapel is in charge of
plans.
About Town
ROTARY CLUB
Charles Kirbo, chairman of
the State Democratic party, will
be guest speaker at the noon
meeting of the Griffin Rotary
Club, Thursday, held at the Elks
Club.
Tape player stolen
Jane Forrester of Route Four,
Box 155-A, reported to Griffin
Police that someone stole the
tape player from her car
yesterday while the vehicle was
parked on the city lot at Sixth
and Wall streets.
Entry into the car was made
through a vent window.
The player was valued at SBO.
Drink box hit
The Spalding Sheriff’s
Department answered a call
this morning to investigate the
theft of change from a drink box
at the Griffin Academy on
Hudson road.
It is unknown how the
building was entered.
k \ ’ -
min Guggenheim. Isador
Straus, millionaire merchant,
was among those lost. So was
John Jacob Astor and Presi
dent William Taft’s personal
aide, Archibald Butt.
The fact that it was a maiden
voyage lured many prominent
people aboard. The size of the
ship — the biggest thing ever
launched — appealed to others.
The Titanic was 888% feet
long. Its four funnels rose some
81 feet above the upper deck.
It offered for the first time in
maritime history a private
promenade deck for passen
gers who cared for— and could
afford — such luxury. This
get away in a rented van.
The tape was introduced into
evidence Tuesday at the trial of
Angela Davis, 28, the former
UCLA instructor who is ac
cused of helping plan the
kidnapings.
Brown testified he and the
interviewee did not recognize
the noises they heard as gunfire
and thought it was coming from
a nearby loading dock.
“Then the window broke out
and we left rapidly," he said.
“We left the recorder going. I
came back later and got the
tape and thought it might be of
interest to the sheriff’s depart
ment.”
As Brown played the tape in
Judge Richard Arnason’s cour
troom, at least 15 shots clearly
could be heard, bunched in an
irregular pattern and varying
Mrs. Williams
Mrs. Hazel Jones Williams of
Senoia, widow of Mr. Carl
Carter Williamson, died early
this morning at her residence.
Mr. Williams died on March 4,
1972. She was native of Spalding
County. Mrs. Williams was a
member of the Senoia Baptist
Church. She was the daughter of
the late Will Simpson Jones and
the late Jennie Viola May
Jones.
She is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. J. L. Thompson
of Senoia and Mrs. Raiford
Storey of Florence, S.C.; five
sons, Carter Williams, Reuben
Williams, both of Senoia, W. S.
Williams of Deland, Fla., Dan
Williams of Elberton and David
Williams of Riverdale; a sister,
Mrs. A. J. Culpepper of Griffin;
15 grandchildren and 12 great
grandchildren.
Funeral services will be
conducted Friday morning at 11
o’clock from the Senoia Baptist
Church. The Rev. Dan Lester
and Dr. W. M. Suttles will of
ficiate and burial will be in Oak
Hill cemetery in Griffin. The
body will remain at Haisten
Funeral Home in Griffin.
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deck was in connection with
some of the finer suites of
rooms.
Other features included a Pa
risian case and palm room,
Turkish baths, a swimming
pool, a fmely fitted gymnasium
and a squash court. In the main
dining room, 600 passengers
could dine in comfort at one
time. There was a French res
taurant where 200 others might
dine a la carte.
From among the stricken lin
er’s passengers and crew, 745
were saved, mostly women and
children. All were picked up by
the liner Carpathia, which
reached the scene of the trage-
greatly in intensity—from the
sharp, clearly defined cracks of
pistol fire to an occasional,
deep-throated “whump” which
apparently came from a
shotgun.
When the battle was over,
Judge Harold J. Haley and
three of his abductors were
dead in the van.
Prosecutor Albert W. Harris
Jr. for nearly two weeks had
been presenting a detailed
picture of the incident. He was
expected to continue it at least
through today and possibly
through the end of this week’s
court sessions.
Five San Quentin Prison
guards also testified Tuesday
about the shootout which
erupted when the escape van,
apparently left outside the
courthouse for the purpose by
kidnaper Jonathan Jackson,
rolled down the exitway and
confronted a small army of law
officers.
Guard Jon W. Matthews said
one of the kidnapers started
shooting at him, and he cut
three of them down with a high
powered rifle.
Telephone
clinics
planned
Griffin Area industries and
businesses are invited to par
ticipate in the FREE Telephone
Courtesy Clinic to be held
Tuesday, April 18, at the
Chamber of Commerce.
Representatives of the
Southern Bell Telephone
Company will conduct sessions
in the Chamber Meeting Room
Tuesday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
The telephone courtesy Clinic
will benefit receptionists, office
workers, business people and
others who are in daily
telephone contact with
customers.
Those planning to attend the
Telephone Courtesy Clinic
should select which session they
will attend and call the
Chamber of Commerce office.
Mrs. June Sims of the
Womens Division, Chamber of
Commerce is chairman of the
project.
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dy some 1,600 miles northeast
of New York just before dawn
on that fateful April 15.
The Titanic went down with
her colors flying, the survivors
reported. Capt. Smith was on
the bridge and the band was
playing “Nearer My God to
Thee.”
In one of the initial accounts
printed after the Carpathia had
brought the survivors to New
York, it was reported, “In one
voice they told of the splendid
heroism of those who remained
behind.”
The following facts stand out
in bold relief: The Titanic was
making 21 knots. None at first
THOMASVILLE, Ga. (UPI)-
An early morning fire that de
stroyed a rooming house here
killed one man and threatened
to spread to a national historic
site next door before being put
out.
Only the stone facade and
several pillars of the 70 - year
old Rosemar Inn were still
standing after the blaze early
Tuesday. It was extinguished
before spreading to the Ponder
House, next door, a historic site
built in 1856.
Killed by the blaze was Willie
J. Rowell, 70. Carroll Horton of
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Griffin Daily News Wednesday/ April 12, 1972
thought she would sink. She re
mained afloat two hours after
an iceberg had ripped her bow
els below the waterline.
Capt. Smith averted instant
panic by a terse appeal to his
crew, “Be British, my men!”
A small number of steerage
passengers tried to rush for the
lifeboats but were held back by
the crew and other passengers.
The Titanic turned her nose to
the bottom when the last life
boat was less than 100 yards
away, reared her stern high in
the air and trembled a moment
before sinking.
There were two explosions
when the inrushing waters
reached her boilers.
The survivors reported that
all the women were saved ex
cept those who refused to leave
their husbands.
One of the most graphic
stories related by the survivors
was that of Col. Archibald Gra
de, U.S. Army, “who swam in
the icy sea until he found a cork
life raft.”
“After sinking with the
ship,” he said, “it appeared as
if I was being propelled by
some great force through the
water. I was most fearful of be
ing boiled to death and my
greatest difficulty was in hold
ing my breath until I came to
the surface. I reached the sur
face after a time that seemed
unending. There was nothing in
sight save ice, which dotted the
ocean, and a large field of
wreckage. There were dying
men and women all about me,
groaning and crying piteously.
“I saw wreckage every
where. All that came within my
reach 1 clung to. A great crate
like block of wood floated with
in my grasp and I grabbed it.
It seemed to be sufficiently
large to keep me afloat. At this
Fire kills Florida man
MacClenny,.Fla., was hospital
ized with leg lacerations, after a
jump from the second - story
balcony of the three story wood
and stone building.
Rowell was killed when the
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moment, however, I saw an :
overturned boat and swam to :
it.
“On this raft, it was really a :
collapsible boat that was called :
a raft, there were already lying ■
more than 20 men, one in the ;
bow and the other in the stern, •
they propelled us through the i
wreckage with pieces of wood i
which answered for oars.
“Presently the raft became •
so full that it seemed as if it ■
would sink if more came ■
aboard, and the crew, for self- :
preservation, had to refuse to :
permit others to come aboard. ■
This was the most pathetic and
most horrible scene of all. The
piteous cries of those around us
still ring in my ears and I will
remember them to my dying
day.
‘“Hold on to what you have,
old boy,’ we shouted to each
man who tried to get aboard.
‘One more of you aboard would
sink us all.’
“And many of those who
were refused answered as they
went to their death, ‘Good luck,
and God bless you.’
“All this time we were
buoyed up and sustained by the
hope of rescue. We saw lights in
all directions. They came from
the Titanic’s lifeboats.
“And so we passed the night,
with waves washing over us
and the raft buried deep in the
water under our feet.
“Did we pray? Men who
seemed to have forgotten long
ago how to address their Cre
ator recalled the prayers of
their childhood and murmured
them over and over again. We
said the Lord’s Prayer again
and again together.
“An age seemed to have
passed when we first saw the
twinkling lights of the Car
pathia.”
roof of the building collapsed on
firemen as they tried to pull
him from the budding, once part
of Young’s Female College, and
converted to a boarding house
40 years ago.